Libro que me han prestado: A Scanner Darkly por Philip K. Dick

Hace muchos años que no leo nada de este clásico autor de la ciencia ficción, Philip K. Dick. Tengo que reconocer que con él recuerdo encontrarme siempre con una de cal y otra de arena, novelas que disfruté mucho y otras que dejé por la mitad por que la historia no me llamaba para nada. Tengo ganas de leer esta novela, pero ya me han advertido que no hay rayos rosa 🙁

De la contraportada

«Dick was… one of the genuine visionaries that North American fiction has produced in this century, and his best novels contitute a significant a body of work as that of any writer in this country in the last 30 years.»
-Steve Erickson, L.A. Weekly

Cops and criminals have always been interdependent, but no novel has explored that perverse symbiosis more powerfully than A Scanner Darkly. Bob Arctor is a dealer of lethally addictive drug called Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, he has taken on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D -which Arctor takes in mammoth doses- gradually splits user’s brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn’t realize that he is narcing on himself.

Caustically funny, eerily accurate in its depiction of junkies, scam artists, and the walking brain-dead, Philip K. Dick’s industrial-grade stress test of identity (both his characters’ and the reader’s) may be the most unnerving drug novel ever written.

«Dick [was] many authors: a poor man’s Pynchon, an oracular postmodern, a rich product of the changing couterculture.»
–Village Voice